UPSC ESE Electrical Engineering Syllabus

Paper I Syllabus
1. EM Theory Electric and magnetic fields
Gausss Law and Amperes Law. Fields in dielectrics, conductors and magnetic materials.
Maxwells equations. Time varying fields. Plane-Wave propagating in dielectric and
conducting media. Transmission lines.

2. Electrical Materials
Band Theory, Conductors, Semi-conductors and Insulators. Super-conductivity. Insulators for
electrical and electronic applications. Magnetic materials. Ferro and ferri magnetism.
Ceramics, Properties and applications. Hall effect and its applications. Special semi
conductors.

3. Electrical Circuits
Circuits elements. Kirchoffs Laws. Mesh and nodal analysis. Network Theorems and
applications. Natural response and forced response. Transient response and steady state
response for arbitrary inputs. Properties of networks in terms of poles and zeros. Transfer
function. Resonant circuits. Threephase circuits. Two-port networks. Elements of twoelement
network synthesis.

4. Measurements and Instrumentation

Units and Standards. Error analysis, measurement of current, Voltage, power, Power-factor
and energy. Indicating instruments. Measurement of resistance, inductance, Capacitance and
frequency. Bridge measurements. Electronic measuring instruments. Digital Voltmeter and
frequency counter. Transducers and their applications to the measurement of nonelectrical
quantities like temperature, pressure, flow-rate displacement, acceleration, noise level etc.
Data acquisition systems. A/D and D/A converters.

5. Control Systems
Mathematical modelling of physical systems. Block diagrams and signal flow graphs and
their reduction. Time domain and frequency domain analysis of linear dynamical system.
Errors for different type of inputs and stability criteria for feedback systems.
Stability analysis using Routh-Hurwitz array, Nyquist plot and Bode plot. Root locus and
Nicols chart and the estimation of gain and phase margin. Basic concepts of compensator
design. State variable matrix design. Sampled data system and performance of such a system
with the samples in the error channel. Stability of sampled data system. Elements of nonlinear control analysis. Control system components, electromechanical, hydraulic, pneumatic
components.

Paper II Syllabus
1. Electrical Machines and Power Transformers
Magnetic Circuits - Analysis and Design of Power transformers. Construction and testing.
Equivalent circuits. Losses and efficiency. Regulation. Auto-transformer, 3-phase
transformer. Parallel operation. Basic concepts in rotating machines. EMF, torque, basic
machine types. Construction and operation, leakage losses and efficiency. D.C. Machines.
Construction, Excitation methods. Circuit models. Armature reaction and commutation.
Characteristics and performance analysis. Generators and motors. Starting and speed control.
Testing, Losses and efficiency. Synchronous Machines. Construction. Circuit model.
Operating characteristics and performance analysis. Synchronous reactance. Efficiency.
Voltage regulation. Salient-pole machine, Parallel operation. Hunting. Short circuit
transients. Induction
Machines.
Construction. Principle
of
operation.
Rotating
fields. Characteristics and performance analysis. Determination of circuit model. Circle
diagram. Starting and speed control. Fractional KW motors. Single-phase synchronous and
induction motors.

2. Power systems
Types of Power Stations, Hydro, Thermal and Nuclear Stations. Pumped storage plants.
Economics and operating factors. Power transmission lines. Modeling and performance
characteristics. Voltage control. Load flow studies. Optimal power system operation.
Load frequency control. Symmetrical short circuit analysis. Z-Bus formulation. Symmetrical
Components. Per Unit representation. Fault analysis. Transient and steady-state stability
of power systems. Equal area criterion. Power system Transients. Power system Protection
Circuit breakers. Relays. HVDC transmission.

3. ANALOG AND DIGITAL ELECTRONICS AND CIRCUITS

Semiconductor device physics, PN junctions and transistors, circuit models and parameters,
FET, Zener, tunnel, Schottky, photo diodes and their applications, rectifier circuits,
voltage regulators and multipliers, switching behavior of diodes and transistors. Small signal
amplifiers, biasing circuits, frequency response and improvement, multistage amplifiers
and feed-back amplifiers, D.C. amplifiers, coupling methods, push pull amplifiers,
operational amplifiers, wave shaping circuits. Multivibrators and flipflops and their
applications. Digital logic gage families, universal gatescombinational circuits for
arithmetic and logic operational, sequential logic circuits. Counters, registers, RAM
and ROMs.

4. MICROPROCESSORS
Microprocessor architecture-Instruction set and simple assembly language programming.
Interfacing for memory and I/O. Applications of Micro-processors in power system.

5. COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS
Types of modulation; AM, FM and PM. Demodulators. Noise and bandwidth considerations.
Digital communication systems. Pulse code modulation and demodulation. Elements of

sound and vision broadcasting. Carrier communication. Frequency division and time division
multiplexing, Telemetry system in power engineering.

6. POWER ELECTRONICS
Power Semiconductor devices. Thyristor. Power transistor, GTOs and MOSFETs.
Characteristics and operation. AC to DC Converters; 1-phase and 3-phase DC to DC
Converters. AC regulators. Thyristor controlled reactors; switched capacitor
networks. Inverters;
single-phase
and
3-phase. Pulse
width
modulation.
Sinusoidal modulation with uniform sampling. Switched mode power supplies.